The Daily Croissant

Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere

  • Love You To

    • 31 Oct 2011
    • 0 Responses
    •  views
    • 30October11 Beatles Psychedelia
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost
    Each day just goes so fast
    I turn around - it's past
    You don't get time to hang a sign on me

    Love me while you can
    Before I'm a dead old man

    A lifetime is so short
    A new one can't be bought
    But what you've got means such a lot to me

    Make love all day long
    Make love singing songs

    There's people standing round
    Who screw you in the ground
    They'll fill you in with all their sins you'll see

    I'll make love to you
    If you want me to

    via youtube.com

     

    • Tweet

  • Fiber Artwork by Kate Kretz

    • 31 Oct 2011
    • 0 Responses
    •  views
    • 30October11 Fiber Artwork
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost
    Media_httpstaticneato_hobrq

    "The gorgeous Heart Center is a human heart with embroidered veins and arteries ... " 

    Check out more of Kate Kretz  

    via neatorama.com

     

    • Tweet

  • Ganymede : Geologic Map of the Uruk Sulcus Region

    • 31 Oct 2011
    • 0 Responses
    •  views
    • 30October11 Astronomy Geology Maps Mars
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost
    Media_httpastrogeolog_jnchy
    "This geologic map of the Uruk Sulcus region of Jupiter's moon, Gaymede, were created using images from the Voyager mission. The creators of the map looked at albedo, surface morphology and texture, and crater densities on the images to distinguish one geologic unit from another."
    via astrogeology.usgs.gov

     

    • Tweet

  • Counting by the Winters

    • 31 Oct 2011
    • 0 Responses
    •  views
    • 30October11 Historical Native American Pictorial Winter art
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost
    Media_httplh5ggphtcom_gdhbd

    Winter Count Robe detail via the website of Douglas Stebila

    Counting by Winters

    Winter counts are histories or calendars in which events are recorded by pictures, with one picture for each year.

    The Lakota call them waniyetu wowapi.

    Waniyetu is the word for year, which is measured from first snowfall to first snowfall. It is often translated as 'a winter.'

    Wowapi means anything that is marked on a flat surface and can be read or counted, such as a book, a letter, or a drawing. 

    Winter counts are physical records that were used in conjunction with a more extensive oral history. Each year was named for an event and the pictures referring to the year names served as a reference source that could be consulted regarding the order of the years. People knew the name of the year in which other important events occurred, and could place these in time by referring to the winter count. 
      via Lakota Winter Counts Online Exhibit  

     

     

     

    • Tweet

  • The Magical Realism of Ivan Albright

    • 31 Oct 2011
    • 0 Responses
    •  views
    • 30October11 Magical Realism art
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost

    The Picture of Dorian Gray 


      
    The Farmer's  Kitchen
     

      
    And God Created Man in His Own Image


    Learn more about Ivan Albright at wikimedia.org

     

    • Tweet

  • The Exploded Flowers of Fong Qi Wei

    • 31 Oct 2011
    • 0 Responses
    •  views
    • 30October11 Flora photography
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost
    Media_httpwwwoddityce_fufum

    Lotus

    Singaporean photographer Fong Qi Wei likes to pick apart flowers by hand and rearrange them on blank a canvas, creating incredible works of art.

    In a series entitled “Exploded Flowers” 33-year-old Fong Qi Wei disassembles popular flowers like the rose, lotus or orchid, carefully rearranges their components on a blank white canvas and then takes photos of them. The results are totally different than the flowers themselves, but just as beautiful and impressive. “ ”Each of the images are done in one sitting, simply because flowers are amongst the most perishable things – so I cannot leave it half finished and work on it the next day as some petals may have wilted or dried up by then. I find that there is always a surprising amount of detail which we do not usually notice in flowers.” the artist says about his exploded flowers.

    via odditycentral.com

     

    • Tweet

  • Americans' Beliefs in Paranormal Phenomena

    • 31 Oct 2011
    • 0 Responses
    •  views
    • 30October11 America Beliefs Paranormal Phenomena
    • Edit
    • Delete
    • Tags
    • Autopost
    Media_httpilivescienc_edjpm
    via livescience.com

     

    • Tweet

  • About

    A Walk-about in this Amazing Universe...

    Please Tweet !

    free counters

    638777 Views

  • Archive

    • 3000 (1)
      • January (1)
    • 2999 (1)
      • January (1)
    • 2997 (2)
      • January (2)
    • 2012 (886)
      • May (26)
      • April (194)
      • March (193)
      • February (218)
      • January (255)
    • 2011 (3058)
      • December (274)
      • November (264)
      • October (264)
      • September (298)
      • August (326)
      • July (309)
      • June (310)
      • May (266)
      • April (190)
      • March (222)
      • February (187)
      • January (148)
    • 2010 (2206)
      • December (213)
      • November (205)
      • October (173)
      • September (184)
      • August (157)
      • July (137)
      • June (174)
      • May (184)
      • April (131)
      • March (231)
      • February (222)
      • January (195)
    • 2009 (709)
      • December (202)
      • November (259)
      • October (185)
      • September (63)

    Get Updates

    Subscribe via RSS
    TwitterFacebook